Barun Biswas

Barun Biswas
Born(1972-09-12)12 September 1972
Sutia, West Bengal, India
Died5 July 2012(2012-07-05) (aged 39)
Gobardanga, West Bengal, India
Cause of deathMurdered (shot)
OccupationsSchool teacher, social activist, Revolutioner
Known forProtester against the gang rapes in Sutia, West Bengal.

Barun Biswas (12 September 1972 – 5 July 2012) was a Bengali school teacher and a social activist in Sutia, West Bengal, India. In 2000, he co-founded "Sutia Gonodhorshon Pratibad Mancha", an organisation which protested against a local criminal gang, who were using gang-rape to terrorise the people of Sutia. Biswas was murdered on 5 July 2012. In 2013, a Bengali film Proloy was made, based on his life and fight.

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